A cron job is an automatic task, which executes a particular action - usually running some script in the website hosting account. The task is pre-set, which means that it will run on a regular basis - weekly, daily, hourly etc. There are various reasons to use a cron job for your sites. For example, you can get daily reports how many website visitors have signed up on your site, some temporary folder can be emptied automatically weekly or a backup of the content can be generated in a separate folder in your website hosting account. Making use of cron jobs can help you with the management of your sites since you are able to have numerous things completed automatically and get reports for them, in lieu of investing time and efforts to do them yourself.
Cron Jobs in Hosting
The Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with all our hosting packages, will help you to create cron jobs in a couple of basic steps even when you have never employed this type of feature before. As soon as you log in and go to the Cron Jobs section where you'll be able to set background tasks, you just have to paste the server access path to Perl, Python or PHP according to the script you will run, type the path within your account for the actual script file and after that select how often the cron job will be executed. For the latter, you'll be able to use the standard mode and choose the days, hours, minutes, etcetera via straightforward drop-down menus, or in case you are more skilled, you can take full advantage of the advanced mode and set the time interval with numbers and asterisks i.e. the usual method which you might have employed with various Control Panels.
Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you use a semi-dedicated server account from our company to host your sites, you are able to set up cron jobs for all of them effortlessly. This is done in three uncomplicated steps from the Hepsia Control Panel which is used to take care of the hosting account, so you're able to set up a new cron even if you do not have any previous experience. Within the Cron Jobs area of Hepsia, you'll find a box where you need to copy and paste the path to the system files in your account for the programming language your script was designed in - PHP, Python, Perl, Bash, and so on. You also have to submit the folder path to the script file that will be executed in the same box then use our user-friendly drop-down menus to choose how often our system will run the cron. More advanced users, can also take advantage of the traditional method of creating a cron job by typing digits and asterisks in specific positions as well as the aforementioned paths.